Feb 19 2012

Where the Litani River runs

House of Stone

By Anthony Shadid, published February 18, 2012 … The America that drew my family was 7,000 miles from where they started, in old Marjayoun, in what is now Lebanon. My aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents, were…  [more]

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Feb 18 2012

Christianity after religion

The End of Church

By Diana Butler Bass, 02/18/2012  7:50 am … Something startling is happening in American religion: We are witnessing the end of church or, at the very least, the end of conventional church. The United States…  [more]

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Feb 18 2012

Rebuilding the house of Isber Shadid

Anthony Shadid yearned for home

By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who…  [more]

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Feb 18 2012

Does the past matter?

Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left’s closet

By , Friday 17 February 2012 13.59 EST … Does the past matter? When confronted by facts that are uncomfortable, but which relate to people long dead, should…  [more]

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Feb 18 2012

Intimidate and paralyse, choke and divert

False accusations of antisemitism desensitise us to the real thing

By , Friday 17 February 2012 09.11 EST … She hasn’t yet filled the post or filed a single line of copy, but the incoming New York Times…  [more]

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Feb 18 2012

Cold War nostalgia

The US in a ‘dangerous state of funk’

By Ian Buruma, 18 Feb 2012 13:48 … The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk”, or…  [more]

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Feb 16 2012

We have radically to rethink

Mourning John Hick: One of the Greatest Theologians of Our Time

By , 02/14/2012  5:45 pm … With a deep sadness in my heart, I write of the recently deceased Christian theologian John Hick. I feel utterly unqualified…  [more]

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